Mike Brenner secures $750,000 for Brenner Brewing

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Mike Brenner of Brenner Brewing announced Thursday that he has secured $750,000 in funding and will be able to launch his art-centric brewing business soon.

Brenner, the former owner of Hotcakes Gallery, got an MBA at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a brewmaster's license, not only to pursue his beer-making business, but because he wanted to be an art patron as well.

Brenner has plans to export the art of Milwaukee artists by featuring their work on his beer bottles. He also hopes to support artists in more direct and ongoing ways. We hope to have more details about this in the near future.

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